Honestly, I'm not buying the racist thing.
I'm black. If someone does a caricature of me, do I expect to look Caucasian?
Plus, the hair is right and Serena has her fair share of bulging muscles from exercises and swinging the racket.
The only thing they got wrong is stomping the racket. But hey,it still leads to a broken racket.
From what I see, Serena Williams is flexing her muscles. She wants to feel like she's still in charge. Like she's still relevant despite her loss. She wins the US Open, she's got the media attention. She loses the US Open, claims she was treated unfairly and she gets the media attention.
You know, I also think she wants the championship to mean less to Naomi Osaka: like it wasn't a fair game. I guess someone needs a lesson on losing.
And then there are her cult followers. Serena Williams can never do wrong in their eyes. Add that to the black folks who believe every successful black person is going to be treated unfairly by whites and you catch my drift.
Playing the victim is simply her way of dealing with an unexpected failure.
That's it. I'm feeling drowsy from my medication. I'm out
Ya, I feel like that's basically it. It would be hard to identify racism with much confidence, because a caricature will just always look silly and ridiculous.
Ya, as great as she is I bet it's like she never wants to give up an edge, she doesn't like being bettered in a grand slam final.
I'm sure it's mostly all subconscious. But losing probably conjures up some feeling of "victim" in its own right, like in her mind she isn't supposed to lose. And so then it kind of is a vicious cycle when she starts having run ins with the ref.